Imam Bukhari Jamaat

The Imam Bukhari Jamaat was an Uzbek Islamist militant group that was formed during the Syrian Civil War, affiliated with al-Qaeda. Named for the Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari, the group expressed loyalty to the Taliban of Afghanistan, and the group allied with the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham militant groups during the war in Syria. On 25 July 2016, the group's leader Sheikh Salahuddin renewed the group's pledge of allegiance to the Taliban, which was led by Haibatullah Akhunzada at the time.